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Adrian Hanauer

By November, the two had brought in Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and comedian Drew Carey as investors and MLS had announced Seattle as the next expansion team.

Following the MLS All Star game in July 2007, Hanauer was introduced to Hollywood executive, director, and film producer Joe Roth by MLS director Don Garber.

Alan Gow

After being granted special permission by Falkirk, Gow made his Rangers debut in a post-season friendly match against MLS club Los Angeles Galaxy at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, United States, coming on as a half time substitute for Nacho Novo.

Best MLS Player ESPY Award

The Best MLS Player ESPY Award has been presented annually to the player, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in Major League Soccer in a given calendar year.

Bruce Arena

However, while Arena failed to add another MLS championship to his resume, he guided United to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Toluca on August 16, 1998.

Canadian soccer league system

When Major League Soccer (MLS) won the USSF's competition for USA Division 1 status in 1993, the APSL lost teams in 1996 in Denver, Los Angeles, and New York when MLS started three years later.

Clint Mathis

Mathis immediately took his game to a new level, flashing an "I ♥ NY" shirt after scoring goals and breaking the MLS record by scoring five goals in a game against the Dallas Burn on August 26, 2000.

David Monsalve

He was one of three Canadian Internationals that were on trial for the MLS side, Eddy Sidra and midfielder Gianluca Zavarise.

Davy Arnaud

On March 17, 2012, before a crowd of 58,912 at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Arnaud scored the first ever goal for the Montreal Impact in the MLS league in the 56th minute by heading a cross from Sanna Nyassi into the top right corner against Chicago Fire keeper Paolo Tornaghi.

Dean Howes

In 1997, he became CEO, President, and Founding Executive of Professional Teams Physicians, a company that aggregated physicians representing professional teams in the NBA, MLB, NFL, MLS and NHL.

Diego Serna

Serna began his career in his native Colombia with Deportivo Tulua and Independiente Medellín, before moving to MLS with the expansion Fusion in 1998.

Eduardo Hurtado

Since his departure from MLS, Hurtado played for Liga Deportiva Universitaria, Argentinos Juniors and then Hibernian, where he joined international teammate Ulises De La Cruz.

Fort Lauderdale–Tampa Bay rivalry

Several of the derby's players from previous eras, such as Ray Hudson, Thomas Rongen, Perry Van der Beck, Eddie Austin, Farrukh Quarishi, Ivan McKinley and Nick Sakiewicz, ultimately found themselves employed by these MLS clubs.

Global Information Network Architecture

GINA was developed to become a High Level Architecture (HLA) for System Fusion Networks (SFN) as an interoperable and multi-level security ("MLS") engine.

Kevin Calabro

Calabro was replaced as play-by-play broadcaster for the Sounders by Arlo White before the start of the Sounders' second year in MLS.

Listing contract

:Brokers who are REALTORS and, thus, are members of NAR are obliged to enter the property into the local MLS system and offer compensation to co-operating brokers.

Louisville Lightning

In January 2010, the Lightning signed Louisville native John Michael Hayden, formerly of the MLS Houston Dynamo.

Marcelo Gallardo

Gallardo has the third-largest salary in MLS for 2008, behind English midfielder David Beckham of the Los Angeles Galaxy ($6.5 million guaranteed) and Mexican forward Cuauhtémoc Blanco of the Chicago Fire ($2.67 million).

Michelle Wahlgren

She was hired as the MIS Director for AEG in 2002 when the organization owned and operated two entertainment facilities, STAPLES Center, and the Kodak Theatre, five MLS soccer teams, including San Jose Earthquakes, Los Angeles Galaxy, New York Red Bulls formerly known as the New Jersey Metrostars, Chicago Fire, and the Colorado Rapids, and the Los Angeles Kings Hockey Team.

Michigan Bucks

In 2000 the Bucks became the first PDL team to defeat an MLS team in the US Open Cup when they beat the New England Revolution at Foxboro Stadium.

MLS Cup 2004

The Kansas City Wizards were returning to the MLS Cup final for the second time in club history, the last being in 2000, in which they emerged victorious over Chicago Fire.

MLS Cup Playoffs

However, MLS awards the regular season winners with the Supporters' Shield and a direct berth in the CONCACAF Champions League, the continental tournament.

MLS Defender of the Year Award

In the United States, Major League Soccer (MLS) has handed out a Defender of the Year award since its inception in 1996.

MLS on TSN

Games that are not covered under national broadcast contracts with MLS or other competition organizers are divided evenly between the two broadcasters, pursuant to agreements between their parent companies (Bell Canada and Rogers Communications respectively) in connection to their joint 2011 purchase of MLSE.

MLS Supplemental Draft

From 1996 to 1999, all players playing in the United States currently playing professionally in the United Soccer Leagues were eligible for the MLS Supplemental Draft, where they could be selected by all Major League Soccer teams.

NeighborCity

In March 2012, shortly after NeighborCity provided the public performance rankings of National Association of Realtors members, Metropolitan Regional Information Systems filed a civil lawsuit against AHRN/NeighborCity claiming copyright violations by using MLS real estate listing information to craft its realtor-rating database.

New York City FC

New York City FC will be the first MLS franchise located in New York City, and the second franchise in the New York metropolitan area after the New York Red Bulls based in Harrison, New Jersey.

Nickardo Blake

Born in Clarendon, Jamaica, Blake was selected by Toronto FC as the 14th pick of the 2012 MLS Supplemental Draft.

Ottawa Soccer Stadium

The field would have had a natural grass surface built to MLS and FIFA specifications.

While the MLS commissioner gave positive comments about the Ottawa proposal, MLS eventually granted expansion franchises to other cities, including Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Petter Villegas

Villegas left MLS afterwards, going back to his native Ecuador to play for Aucas, Barcelona SC, Manta and Deportivo Cuenca.

Piper, Kansas

ft. of retail and warehouse space on 88 acres (360,000 m2) of land drawing visitors all over the United States, Great Wolf Lodge, the Kansas Speedway, the Legends at Village West, Hollywood Casino, MLS record holding soccer team Sporting Kansas City using Sporting Park stadium, and the CommunityAmerica Ballpark which is the stadium of the Kansas City T-Bones.

Postural Restoration

The Science of Postural Restoration has become more commonly used by athletic medicine professionals working with various populations, including several NCAA Division I men's and women's programs, MLB, PGA and MLS.

Rhett Harty

The head would stay shaven throughout his MLS career, and Harty quickly became a fan favorite, earning the nickname Mr. Clean.

South Boston, Virginia

Greg Vanney, former member of the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team, Sporting Club de Bastia, and MLS, also hails from South Boston.

Starfire Sports

Starfire features fields for indoor and outdoor soccer, and occasionally rugby union games, as well as a 4,500-seat soccer stadium previously used by the USL Seattle Sounders and now used by the MLS Seattle Sounders FC for US Open Cup matches, the Seattle Reign FC of the NWSL, and the Seattle Sounders Women of the W-League.

Stefan Frei

Frei also earned his third assist since playing with Toronto setting up the second goal for Javier Martina, it was later awarded the Goal of the Week in MLS.

Supporters' Shield

In February 2006, USSF decided that the Supporters' Shield winner and the MLS Cup winner would represent the United States in the CONCACAF Champions League, formerly the CONCACAF Champions' Cup.

The Beckham Experiment

In January 2007, 31-year-old Beckham, one of the world's most famous soccer players, at the time playing with Real Madrid, shocked the sports world by signing a five-year contract with MLS team LA Galaxy, effective from the end of La Liga 2006-07 season, which was in progress when the announcement was made.

Tiffany Roberts

Roberts began her coaching career as co-head coach of the women's soccer team at Virginia Commonwealth University along with her husband, former MLS player, Tim Sahaydak.

Tim Bezbatchenko

He also oversaw the agreement between Major League Soccer and the French Football Federation to create an educational course for MLS academy directors.

Tommy Smyth

In 2007 he joined ESPN's MLS broadcast team and has also done a few World Cups for ESPN, including 2006, where he partnered with Adrian Healey.

Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's soccer

Terry Boss of Seattle Sounders FC and Lawson Vaughn of D.C. United are former Golden Hurricane currently playing in MLS.


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